The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 29, 1920, Page 1

On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise eSeattle Star as79 _x @ Weather Mi ronight and Saturday, rain; moderate westerly VOLUME 23. RUSSIANS 1ST SEEMS|/NIPPONESE TO ME DAN vA § SL | DANA SLEETH — ‘Temperature Last 4 Hours Maximam, 34. Minimum, 42 Today noon, 4 es ATE EDITION “TWO ‘CENTS IN| IN SE ATTLE Entered May 1, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, Per Year, by Man, #5 to 09 FRIDAY, APRIL 30, MASSACRE JAPANESE Hi AcRtts (Ghastly Trail ‘TO PLEAD; of Bluebeard | GUILTY OF 3 One-Piece Bathing CALDWELL | IN UPROAR Suits Their Garb in HAS CHEF NEWS Flight From Indians ONCARPET MURDERS Tokyo Reports Reds, Kor- Says He'll “Deal Sharply”| With Hammer--1 Drowns eans and Chinese Anni- FI With Any Future “Abuse in Lake Washington hilate Jap Colony of Authority” Caustic eviticiom of Police BY HENRY W. KINNEY TOKYO, April 26.—(Delayed) Chief Warren arising oat of the | raid on the Service club, 421 —First reliable details of the } maaaacre of Japanese soldiers and Olive st, Wednesday night wae | attaches of the Japanese com made Friday by Mayor Hugh sulate at Nikolaesk were made . | M. Caldwell, who called the | public by the war office today. | chief “on the carpet” in the ex- | 1,000 rept ge page So | rae ‘Wares tor hie action in| found near the spot on July 9, following, they recalled the incident “ releasing alleged gambling leaders of the man, and reported to police, giving a description first attacked Nikelacsk and do on purely nominal ball Caldwell de | Atéorney Doran. t later developed, tallies with that of Hilton. A chart ef nmanded that the Japanese forces clared he will “deal sharply” with! An indictment will be filed charg- d woman's teeth, sent to Spokane, was identified as that of disarm, according to the story of ‘such abaren of authority” im the|ing Hilton with first degree murder|| Mis* Pryor, by a dentist who had performed work for her. Uast an American cyo witness’ report future ape lof morn Lae Deloney. He will plead night, Hilton fexsed that he murdered Miss Pryor near Plum em “Hereafter you will permit the/guilty, Doran maid, and Doran will velit soa Fe oe out of orders by police ot-| then recommend a ite sentence. The the night of June 9, 1919 He said they had quarreled and that she attacked him with a hatpin. Shoving her off, he said, aie fioere of the tank of captain orlindictment will be returned by the | tuck her bead against a table. He thought she was dead, But to office report sald. lieutenant in directing that @ man|grand jury Monday asvure himvelf that she was, he crushed her skull with a hammer, Old rexime Rusdans be booked on an open charge until] Among the unrecovered bodies of 2 . o acite, |sapahese were such officer has bad at least 12/\the dead that people the buffeting ERTHA GOODNICK, of Spokane, | infuriated attackers’ demand» were hours in whieh to conduet his in-lcromcurrents under the surface of refused. After two days of tight veatigation,” the mayor declared in|Lake Washington today is» that of ing, the staff of the consulate set | Bertha Goodnick, one of the vaniah- LICE M. LUDVIGSON'S disappearance followed her marriage to @ man known in Seattle as Louis A. Hilton. She was a,clerk in a business house and ts known to have had $6,000 cash and Liberty Bonds. She lived with her uncle, T. L. Graham, 2707 Tenth ave. W. Hilton posed as a collector ber relatives saw him im her company infrequently, they say they did not suspect a love affair. Records in Port Townsend show Miss Ludvigeson and Hilton were married there on October 6, 1917. The wedding was kept secret for nearly dx months, Then the couple left the city, and in Septem- ber, 1919, Hilton called at the Graham home and asked for furniture belonging to his wife. This he stored in the, Seattle Transfer & Storage Cos warehonse and left. Typewritten letters received by Graham aroused his suspicions that his neice had mbt with foul play. The letters were apparently not bers, altho signed by her name. Her disappearance was cleared up by Hilton last night In his con- fexsion at Lox Angeles that they were rowmg on a river in Idaho and that she “fell overboard” when their boat jammed against some || logx, He admitted he made no attempt to rescue her, agreement,” on which “Blue 2 © beard” Louls A. Hilton, “Vaperg rang’ PRIOR a meee eres ee +o jene, Idaho, on March 25, © use name Hulrt, has made a confession, the lewis, She had property. They vanished soan after the marriage. marrying murderer will go te When Hilton was arrested in Los Angeles recently and tried to kill prison for life. himself by slashing his throat, among his effects were found recelpts ‘The agreement, made public at for taxes paid Y Mrs. Pryor a the night of June Foy than three months after he married Miss Pryor, a Tacoma cou; noticed Lon Angeles today and received the peculiar actions of a man they came upon as they were motor- here in news dispatches, was o ing near Plum station, close to Olympia. When a woman's body was compromise entered into by “Bluebeard” and Deputy District F YOU will visit the Seat tle Fine Arts society ex hibit, at 1213 Fourth ave., any afternoon, you Will discover some won @ertul pictures. Unless you are an artist, there ‘Bre many pictures there that you SiN not realize to their fullest "Beauty and wonder, but whoever You are, and however litte your @yes can take in of beauty, you | Will be more repaid than by spend Ing the same amount of time any Where else in Seattie, ‘These paintings are sane, they ‘re by master painters, by honest Men and women, who see rightly @nd who can express themselves ga & facile brush. In this ‘time Of peeudpart, of colored chromo ANd dauby photographs heap ip newspapers and awk Ward drawings in magazines; thie time of hurry and skelter, of bom. ‘Dast, and mush, and exotic daub ings, it is privilege to enter a Jong, quiet room filled with sane, Deantiful pictures of honest, «mi! ‘ved People and sunny, kindly land By the terms of a “gentlemen's nervous and 370 sates, when the married “H. 1. Gordon” at North Yakima, Wash, on July 11, 1919, within two days after the murder of Elizabeth Pryor at Plum. They left Yakima, sup | posedly on a trip that was to include Honolulu. Mrs. Rath Jotter to the chief. yp tired of Yakima, received a few letters from the bride, who was her If you had that pieture in your home, had ft hung im the right it, had a room big enough to fire to the building and threw them jsttver into the flames. Japanese | womén were outraged, the report) | ania j Over 100 Japancsn who were! |taken prisoner and subjected to} | terrible crusitios are believed to be }now dead. the statement said. | Reperta of bitterness between the | Bolshevist army and sympathizers in| | Siberia, and the Japanese occupation | |foress, have become daily more alarming to the Tokyo war office | Following the Viadivostok coup)! |when the Japanese military forces | | took over control of the city, Bolshe: | | vist leadery have begun a series of ‘reprisais.” Nikolaesk, cut off by/| froz. seas and broken lines of com |munication, could not be reached | with Japanese reinforcements, when two Japanese crul were nent to the aid of Japanese inhabitants and soldiers at Alexandrovek Japanese newspapers have loud in their condemnation of the Viadivostok incident, the statements ss foreign correspondents and Rus sian adherenta both clalmning the | Japanese were pg were sore, | been Caldwe!| sia the new orders bad) been invued becnuse Captain W. FL Searing’s» orders to book the men arrested under the mayor's orders on open charges had been interfered with by the chief in ordering them released on nominal ball | DEMANDS ALL | CHIEF'S REPORTS Caldwell demanded all reports or lother memorandums that had been | made on the raided gambling resorts | since last January ‘The mayor denied Chief Warren's lataternent that reports on the Ser vies club made by «a spectal in- Vestiqator named Gaboural been taken up with him. ‘The conferenos between the! mayor and chief lasted nearty two hours. Sol Warren, brother of the chief. who was rumored to be a partner tm the ownership of the Service club, it was said today, was still Preparing hin affidavit of denial “If my brother is running a gambling game in Seattle I want him arrested,” Chief Warren de elared. bad | ¢d brides of “Biuebeard.” Another, the body of Alice Ludvig: | fon, former Seatué girl, is iost in| @ stream in Idaho. And still another, that of Nina Lee | {Detoney, the last woman he murder-| Jed, lies buri@ in a grave near San | | Diego, for which police detectives of | that city and Los Angeles were hunt- ing today. MAKES CONFESSION |FROM HOSPITAL COT Piecemeal, ax he ts able to talk, Hil- | ton, alias Huirt, is relating the story of hin murderous career, according to dispatches today from Los Angeles. The confesaion, one of the most |nensational tn the history of crime, | im being taken from him, as the self- | wounded slayer lies manacied to his leot, by District Attorney Thomas Lee Woolwine and other officials of the California city | He has dispelled the mystery of the woman found slain in a shallow grave at Plum, near Olympia, last July. She was Elizabeth Pryor, one| of his 30044 wives, whom he killed | with a hammer concluding a quarrel. | | With « hammer be also killed Nina | while the honeymoon was in progress. Then the letters suddenly ceased coming. Efforts made by Mra Harris to trace her aunt availed her nothing, but when she read news dispatches that “Gordon” was one of the many aliases of “Bluebeard” whe wired « description of “Gordon” to Los Angeles authorities checked with that of the polygamist. Hilton’s confession ¢ solution of the mystery. The “Honolulu honéymon”™ ended here Seattle, Bringing his bride to this city, they went for a launch on Lake Washington. The water was rough, Hilton said, and when | she exsayed to walk from the stern of the boat to the center, she into the lake and was drowned. He classed ber death as an but later spoke of it again as murder. eee INA LEE DELONEY, whose home was in Fureka, Mont, whose property was valued at $20,000, fell into the matrimonial trap of the marrying killer at San Francisco on December 6, 1918, He was posing then as Charles N. Harvey. After the wedding, they went to other California cities, and were last seen together in a hotel at Santa Monica. When. part of her property was found in posses. | sion of Hilton at the time of his arrest, inquiries were made that led Los’ Angeles authorities to believe she was another of his | victims On a false clue that she had been taken to Mexico there sold to bandits as a white slave, deputy sheriffs from the fornia city made a trip across the border, but were unable to trace of her. In Hilton's confession, he stated he had taken from the Santa Monica hotel in an automobile on January 26 The auto was loaded with a camping outfit and provisions for ded trip. That evening, while pitching thelr camp at Signal — near Long Beach, he said, she reproached him for corresponé- — ing with other women, and he beat her to death with a hammer. give it due scope, you would find $t growing and growing on you, un ti finally it would be as real to you | as any wonderful landscape you ever enjoyed at firet hand Few pictures grow on acquaint ance. Most pictures, like most men, are soon exhausted. Their shallow souls have no ) No concealments. And consider how marveloun it fe that certain men can put on POLES PIERCE RUSSIAN FRONT ‘Capture 10,000 Prisoners in Red Defeat BERLIN, April ~ (Night) — Polish troops have pierced the Bol shevik front and taken 10,000 pris joners, a dispatch to the Vossisehe Zeitung from Warsaw said | tonight EG BROKEN, ‘BUT MAN IS ‘LUCKY TULSA, Okla, April 30—L. D. Seigler, well «hooter, is in a hospital here, thankful for only a broken leg A truck load of nitroglycerine, dete. en by Seigler, fell off 4 bridge ne and hung suspended for two urs. Miss Isabel (above) and Laura Viosca. The attack was made while the MAZATLAN, Mexico, April 30.—j party was in the swimming pool. One-piece bathing sults don't make) very good protection againat bullets|A Japanese servant warned them and the hot, beating sun of Mexico,|of the attack only in time to allow but ‘that’s all the protection Misses! them to scramble out of the pool and Isabel and Laura Viosea, soctety|into the pirvate railway car of the girls of San Francisco, had when,| host, which, attached to the arm with a party of 18 guests at a house |oured train, was rushed thru the at party of Americans at Sinaloa, tacking Indians and on to Mazatlan. they were attacked by a band of| The Indians raided the foune and Mexican Indians dressed themselves in the finery of Escape was made in an armoured | their guests. The two young women train manned by Mexican soldiers. | lost all their expensive wardrobes. ‘AMERICAN AIR FLEET MOUNTS GUARD TODAY “ALONG MEXICAN LINE SAN ANTONIO, Texas, April , SAN ANTONIO, Texas, April 20 310.—Twenty-five United States | —The railroad between Mexico Chy Guadalajara has been cut and army airplanes patrolted the ine |2N4 Guadalajara bas been cut and yal border today, watch ot Michox captured by rev. William ing movements of Metxican fed- | ojytioniate ording to reports Thurs-| eral and revolutionary (troops. | reaching here from Mexico today with a| Patrols are between El Paso, sie deal “Soea “tober sion and) Tex., and Douglas, Ariz. goon Ree tb rates Py | Engineer Believed to Be WASHINGTON, _ April The ways and means oo today, by a strictly party vote, favorably reported to the house the soldier bonus bill. If approved by the republican caucus today, the measure | be called up in the house next Monday for action, Democrats strongly oppose the pre visions of the bill placing a tax on sales, but were outvoted by the Te publicans | A change in the original plan ex | tends by the act crawling over was Lake reser 35, a Mil- brought to} the voir, George Gerstagh, of John On Hall, is still said It con unimportant was Friday held morning, under ob “Good-bye. at - rar everal re leave of Was & day open by here by wirelens | today No LOOKS __ |!" und Patrolman made how continued. and ement would be pilot anne the 1 wes gor is one up Another marriage and subsequent disappearance of the bride ix the case of Misa Heatrice M. Andrawartha, of Canada, whom he wedded at ‘Tacoma on February 5, 191%—the year in| which he married four women and | murdered three, In Tacoma at that time he posed as Harry M. Lewis. MARRIED BRIDE: . QUICK SUCCES! IN Hjs confession begins with his marriage to Miss Ludvigson on Oc: tober 6, 1917, and concludes with the murder and burial of the body of Miss Deloney on January 26, of this year, Altho he did not recall the date when Miss Ludvigson “fell overboard" and was drowned in the Idaho river, her death presumably red shortly before he returned here last September and demanded her household goods from her uncle, T. L. Graham, The goods were delivered to him (Turn to Page 2, Column 5) 4 plane carried a an Maori Maidens Tried to Kiss British Prince AUCKLAND, N. Z., April 30.—Ow ing to the railway strike, a great portion of the Prince ef Wales’ tour of North New Zealand has been abandoned, The royal party has re turned to Auckland to join the Re: nown. Several Maori maidens at Rotorua attempted to kiss the prince's cheek, but he smartly dodged them, amid loud laughter from the spectators. A Maori belle, named Buide Bella balloon has were cor 0, Are you going into |!) business for yourself? || Spaces in the public || markets have for a long || time been at a premium. n legation, and Juanita Storeh, | 39.1 De an am. | | Took More Than Legal Interest pawnbroker's interest In today's Classified Ads you'll find many ted that the revolver found in hiw|him, Miss Ladvignon ona river in| pomension at the time of the mud | Idaho that he dogs not remember the | and his arrest belonged to the|name of, and Miss Goodnick on Lake very heart of the brook, and the | property of Sol Warren. pen - ; | le to tal at great length or to ably Reported to House eee ; If was mid to contain “practically whom he had slain, and admitted he mance. Strange, how 20 papers. he ts able. Gerstagh was reported missing | gente » will be merely hy the ownershiy of the club. cities. get out ad one of the |Heutenant (senior grade) in the navy, © of draperies, of light, and shade, and day night t 706 Olive huahua state joined the revolution- | wilson spoken of as having married . breakfasted there They were| munication with flight headquarters ger boy, was lingering between life day, which anted. publicans decided, and none of the gr and our hills, study No. 12, by FOR prt lt | terfeve, with ‘troop movements ir that he had nented be-/ year to nearly $6,000,000,000, or virta- expected ‘om " e € p Ble oe, new El Tex added proof that American ar. pected from th ner Meret ace dent Wilson today nominated Henry the grand jury Wednesday evening, tie, without - form-and-void } today that Ignacio Bonillus may re. | stlons created by the Exch.Cummins 7. 7 ar Hard Job to Find j Auburn, and George H. ‘Trepanlery market stalls for sale, me all the way to Seattle to ex | deney | Unlawful plained to the police Friday that|ing she was imprisoned, head An affidavit sworn to by Frank |Deloney, but the death of Miss Lud-|| Placing the body in the car, he motored to a place near San Diega, chief's brother Washington. Hal maid he borrowed the “MIGHT BE OTHERS,” Majesty of moonlight on harvest y iw and the character of a rte by eaite explain minor details owing to the Demented 7 " d condition of his throat, which he | jO. 40, “Figures on the Band,” by Elizabeth Rob penn ai had married 10 or 15 women, but| nother safe, that jevents were transpiring so rapidly| wankee engineer, almost equally capable artists will | paint a similar scene, and of the 20 Charges against the 27 men| irom the meager statement taken caught in the raid were scheduled | ao re ar : \to the police by Mrs. E. Wright, | while the oth . | Gown by his confessors last night.) i294 Hrooklyn ave., when she found _ pictures of various degrees of per ‘ | cas miyhe uee | WO Arrested With J Narcotic Outfits | peepee In the summer of 1917 he is said to |have married Agnes Wilson, of Al-| 2Ot |and to regular army men for their graperies of ight, and shade, an 11-Year-Old Youth |v, mtist Arms, Wilton Tviow ralirond men told the po [en {2 sovelar army sae Se Gwhy, you can walk into that sun Yass) Gata tn hake aoe being held in the city a ints today, advices sald. The} P Poel |him in Seatue that summer when a William Don They took the alr early | aera) garriso ere 2 and death at Provider hospital |e was posing as James P. Watson Harold: Arnold, jersta taxes necessary to raise the Ht you want to wee real mint that Seu , | federal garrison there with 200 men|iriday, He was struck t eke eaaee declared that Gerstagh had | for Paving the soldiers shall a yap waneoast CLEVELAND, April 30, — One| A big dirigit beanie er” eg cause of too much study and work./ally as much as was raised during Every picture in this carefully —- Any year of the war, OSES HAREM TO the nation over are doing | sd i! | i of the highest type, and that Alberto Pani May Be | Sones Fora, of Princeton, NJ, and of Quincy, Mass., to several persons already facing fed- eral charges for alleged conspiracy p of the furtive futurints 7. |turn to Washington as Me railroad law dor to the ed State: 113 Maple * basmdor to the United States. Nice, Quiet Spot} aple st,, Auburn, were » added. Apartment house dwellers who are | “ nos James Hi. Smith for alleged The best buys” in || ‘These reports followed publication | was exacted by B. V, Reeves, it was desertion, Then Governor Hart|| Business Chances are al- |/in newspapers that Honillan and|charged in Justice Gtis W. Brinker's roosters crowed every morning at) ward, for more than two boul 530 and 533 N, 68th st., and that they | folding bed closed, Mary QO Hall, s part owner of the club, |vigeon, as well ax that of Miss Good-|| “ere he buried it. from United States marshal TELLS OFFICERS leader, and, chiefly, their ! Hall's afe, one of two strong |siashed in aa effort to end his life] Caught Ballard police as he erta, ia one of the rare borne, a partner of lat the time he could not recall them the city hospital one picture will thrill you with for hearing in police court today however, it is possible to t many | ie eel Saaeiaah ita Sie notes in his room addressec & abeth Paxton, is a» remarkable a Jim Doyle, 80. and using lice that Gertsagh had been acting |" Ronuses and other forms of aid bedroom and fairly sniff the on charges ‘a an auto: | e omen, if there renounced President Carranza ne - here. These two women, | hwent folks feel when the soi ee Ot eee are 2 nt working on an improvement ore December 1, 1920, The a « 004 alcohe »p bordered from Camp Langley, Va., for Pa i it ie worth while quart of wood alcohol and a porter !order : | tad exhibit i» worth wh Wilson Names Two | Two M WED U. S. GIRL| Two ore Added ery of their medium, and sane, : ee Tee Mexican Candidate) ji tember of the interstate com Santa Rosa, Cal. Sohrab could have jin freight car looting were reindicted, lart Refuses to ; | Alberto dani, Mexican miniater in IQAYS- “TRICK. “BED bored with city ways Would do well | that evidence was insuffic ways found in The Star || General Pabio Gonzales, leading |court Friday. He is alleged to have | Papakura, received a pound not from made life sleepless along about 640) lin has filed suit lady, al hein maid Sol Warren was not interested | nick, he says, came about by “acci-| tn the establishment. Hall admit-|/dent” while they were boating with | ie Jordon, of Nome, who cautioned | ts canvas, wtih daubs of color, the him not to lone it as it was the! Hilton began the relation of his IEG. ‘ confession last night. He was un- Reward Measure Is Favor- " @wn most hidden thoughts boxes taker in the raid, WaS/ when he was arrested. opened at police headquarters today. He said there “might be others” in of fence of the Green pictures that breathe ro. unopened, but Hall pnpiee “ ~~ | quence with positive accuracy orn tained $14 and some He promised to tell more as soon as | Where he is, being | servation . of romance, as this one does, | h but were postponed until May 7/of his mysterious movements during | cm payee ee. to permit further investigation into| his operations in Seattle and near-by | {ends telling them "Good-bye “This room is stuffy and 1 je of captain in the army and Bit of color, of delicate expression Fahey, 22, were found late |the name Charles Newton Harvey Jimirieg and Chihuahua City in Chi Movers Near Death| This is probably the Mrs. Gertrude Rweeciy for vee oe for service men cannot be paid until jail Fri ‘The airplanes are in constant com. ve urle year-old messen- quested a absence Thurs | the first part of next year, the re: int scent of the lady who has : ed Sergeant - n and Wi r Deflection of La Cruz threatens were two, have disappeared, and this 1h M when he sustained a frac: on an engine part for many | incre: n m wR ne fuilrand.to Bi Paso end. nay point he has not yet cleared | on a incre sed taxes proposed would by n autumn dullness shrouds our ORONER : Ks nit the railroad to Fl F nd may In| tured skull ” months and he expressed a belief|the total government revenues pins fl NEW GUEST were missing from St. Mark's hospi-|bOrder service, It was learned today of them are inspirations, + “ wn os . tal today, Next reports of the porter | Th Hloon will be stationed over are just pictures; all of them | t#! today xt reports of the porter | — | on Commerce Board [ : WASHINGTON, April «30.—Preni y YORK, to Car Thief List In a secret, indictment returned by ful ‘human vision have not | be way as yet to the furious, MEXIOO /CIT?, “Apri leneios’ Gdatthidelon: Tiuncan was a harem in his home town, but pre |layed.)—-A report was current here | ominated to fill one of the new po ferred one American gir jand the names of Mrs, J. R. Lewis, | proprietress of the St. Elmo hetel, — Give Up Deserter Paria, TiMntOned On & ipomible | The sheriff of Junction Oity, Col., | tion candidate for the presi tes « ven gs pri ane aa to move out near G, A. Rogers, who HURT HER HEAD lives at 523 N. 68th st. Rogers com-; LOS ANGELES, April 90. es, Smith. presidential candiddtes, had agreed|taken more than 3 per cent Interest | the prince, who signed It at her re- 8 nice trip.” said the sher-! Want Ads. to withdraw in the interest of res |for money loaned on an auto belong-| quest, She is having it framed as a ne ~ toration of arder, ing to W, R. Cotten memento of the prince's visit, 2 e <r